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No deal isn't what Paris thinks it is
The Brexit waiting continues. The negotiators are still talking but, according to one of those close to the negotiations on…
No-deal Brexit planning has been a lifesaver
The port of Dover has been closed down. The Eurotunnel isn’t carrying any freight for a couple of days. The…
Inside the no-deal reasonable worst case scenario
I’ve been passed the government’s ‘reasonable worst case scenario planning assumptions to support civil contingencies planning for the end of…
Might there be a Brexit deal after all?
Parliament has not yet returned from its summer break but we are already in a bitter constitutional battle, with the…
History will soon judge this fraught time
Good stories have a dénouement. The Act III moment when all is revealed and the narrative comes in to land…
Johnson confirms he will prorogue parliament
Downing Street has just confirmed that the Prime Minister will be asking the Queen to prorogue parliament ahead of a…
Europe’s politicians should be terrified of a no-deal Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to use ‘all tactics available’ to block a no-deal Brexit. The Labour leader is meeting MPs…
Boris’s nightmare is that the EU accepts his Brexit offer
As was to be expected, the EU’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s offer of revisiting the Withdrawal Agreement if the backstop…
To get a deal Boris needs to show (or fake) some humility
There were many Brexiteers who were urging Boris Johnson to travel to Washington before he went anywhere else, to underline…
Brace yourself for no deal
I AM up on the far north-west coast of Scotland, where the weather is changing every five minutes under vast skies…
It’s time to talk about what no deal really means
The main reason Conservative MPs prefer Boris Johnson’s government to Theresa May’s is because of its clarity of message. The…
Why Britain, like Iceland, will thrive outside the EU
I have no doubt that Britain will thrive after leaving the EU, whether or not it leaves with a deal.…
Stop thinking Merkel will save us, Dominic Cummings warns
Is Boris Johnson more likely to get a Brexit deal after his meetings with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron? The…
France says no deal now the most likely Brexit outcome. But why now?
Why would French government officials brief that they think it most likely Britain will leave the European Union without a…
There’s another option beyond no deal or May’s deal – and Boris knows it
With Boris Johnson finally in No. 10 we now have a prime minister who says he is committed to Britain…
Project Fact: how scared should we really be of a no deal?
Food shortages, diabetics going without insulin, outbreaks of salmonella and swine flu: a no-deal Brexit has become a dystopia of…
Even ministers don’t understand Brexit
The Brexit negotiations are becoming so complicated that even the cabinet admits that it doesn’t understand what is going on.…
A Canada-style Brexit deal might come back on to the table
Over the summer, a no-deal Brexit became less likely. Eurosceptic ultras have been forced to be less blasé. The return…
